Beth Allison Barr is an American historian who is currently the James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Her 2021 book The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth received widespread media coverage.
She subsequently studied Medieval History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1999 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2004.
[1][2] Barr has served as president of two academic societies: the Texas Medieval Association in 2011 and The Conference on Faith and History from 2018 to 2020.
It received widespread coverage, including in secular media such as Newsweek,[6] The New Yorker,[7] and NPR,[8] as well as Christian outlets such as The Gospel Coalition.